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...comedy hauled out of this unremarkable framework is one part radio, one part vaudeville, one part lunacy. The trail of the safari through the jungle is illustrated with an animated map. The voice of a commentator speaks: "Week after week they plod onward with nothing to guide them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen...
...Onward & Upward. Last July's Democratic platform made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went onward & upward without much fuss or muss. He drifted into radio...
...Practical Parson (Whittlesey House; $2.50). The Rev. William H (for nothing) Spence was a Methodist minister who in 30 years of pastorates in Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska never left a parish with less than a 25% net increase in its membership. You seemed to hear an organ playing Onward, Christian Soldiers when he came into the room...
...Only a man harrowing clods . . ." wrote Poet Thomas Hardy. "Yet this will go onward the same though Dynasties pass. . . . War's annals will fade ... ere their story...